NC, Smokies, 20060612
CabinCove, MW etc, flowers and fungi.
Flowers
Carex blanda
In moist low ground across creek from Prissy Bear's near start.
| | LF | | 170x10mm, sp white punctate? below |
| | INFL | | many short erect pistillate spikes and a single staminate spike at top, pist spikes overtopping peduncle of stam spike, all spikes green| stam scales | | 4x1.2mm, strongly folded and appress, otherwise like fertile scales, marg not joined |
| fert scale | | 2.7x1.6mm, wide scar marg, midv green, 0.8mm awn |
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| | PERIG | | 3-3.5x1.5mm, obov, acum both ends, upper end abruptly conspic bent, st 1mm bel and 0.4mm ab, strig bel, many sl r veins, totally filled by fr |
| | FR | | 3 (one 4!) ridged, sides convex ab, obov, 2x1.8mm, smooth to v min roughened-pap, olive-green, jointed to 3-part stig, almost no stipe |
Dianthus armeria
In flower all of a sudden at pond (bank to left of it).
Hexastylis heterophylla
Still in fl, but the elk stepped on it breaking one of the jugs off letting me dissect it finally.
| | LF | | heart-shaped, obtuse to acutish, solid colored |
| | SEP | | 3, join, camp to sl urn, glab yellowish w d fine purp speckling outside, tube 20x15-16mm (a bit squashed), one lobe 8-9x14-15um, other two lobes sl smaller, spreading widely, deep marroon inside, deeply reticulate in bottom half inside, short tangled bristles (~0.8mm long) top half |
| | STAM | | 12, fil joined to ovary except for free tip < 1mm long, reddish |
| | ANTH | | 3mm long, basifix, fil extends v sl past anths, erect, lat slit, brown |
| | STYLE | | 6, 2-3mm long, stig ball-like borne on outside, style ext past stig 1-2mm more and entire (withered a bit so hard to tell but certainly not bifid to stig) |
Juncus tenuis
Along road below Mary-Wanda.
| | LF | | basal, flat to inrolled, shorter than st, v narr and sharp, erect-ascend |
| | INFL | | irreg cyme at top, lowest bract longer than infl, fls subtended by pair of bracts |
| | TEP | | ~3mm, all about equal or petals v sl shorter than sepals, scar marg, green midvein, sharp acute, glab |
| | FR | | ov to ellip, glab, round to sl 3-sided, many seeds, 2.2-2.5mm |
| | SEED | | 0.4mm or so, no tail, might not be mature |
Luzula acuminata
Across creek from Prissy Bear's near start.
| | INFL | | umbel of brs w 1-few fls on each spike-wise, brs radiating |
| | FR | | 3-seeded, broad ov, 3-angled, rounded, glab |
Nymphaea odorata
In flower in pond. The mums planted it. Lots of white petals; lots of yellow showy stamens, the outer of which are petaloid; floating round large dk green glab leaves split on one side to petiole.
Tradescantia subaspera
By hut on Prissy Bear's. In full fl. Still need to check leaves to get proper ID on them.
Mushrooms
Amanita gemmata exannulata []
Under hemlock on Heading Home just past old road, on left.
| | GEN | | medium mushroom, on ground under conifer |
| | ST | | 70x5-7mm, hollow, white, somewhat fibrous covering esp bel but otherwise smooth, splits a bit but otherwise tough and bends without breaking, bruises tawny, sl collar-like white volva |
| | CAP | | 45mm wide, v lt yellow w sl yellower center, flat to v sl umbo, striate marg, small cottony white patch of u-veil present, smooth and clean |
| | FLESH | | white, 2mm thick, soft and brittle |
| | GILL | | free, white to v lt yell, 2-3 per mm, 4mm wide, unbr |
| | SPORE | | print white, colorless, ellip, smooth, 1 cell, tiny knob at one end, 9x7.5um, v sticky in irreg masses making it hard to find single spores! |
A. calyptrata seems to have too thick a stalk, more persistent of a partial veil, thicker of a volva.
Cantharellus cibarius []
On ground across the stream from Prissy Bear's toward ridge with Joan's dig.
| | GEN | | small mushroom, on soil under hemlock |
| | ST | | 20x15mm, tapering up v sl, greyish cast, soft, hollow, brittle |
| | CAP | | 40x20mm, sl concave vase, dk greyish brown, dry, smooth, lter in middle |
| | FLESH | | creamy white, thick, hollow inside, filled with maggots |
| | GILL | | v wavy, 2mm wide, shall cross veins visible between gills esp bel where the gills are straight, creamy (yellower than flesh) |
| | SPORE | | print failed looks like it must be white at 30x |
Definitely in neither
Arora or
Lincoff, yet genus is certain... I think.
Collybia dryophila?
On ground across the stream from Prissy Bear's toward ridge with Joan's dig.
| | GEN | | small mushroom, on soil under conifers mostly |
| | ST | | 20x2mm, tawny-orange to yell ab, v sp finely yell fibrillose, hollow, soft but doesn't break when bent, pulls up with a big mat of debris encased in thin white mycelia |
| | CAP | | 22mm, convex, v thin upturned edge, smooth, dry, clean, off white to tawny, dker almost orange marg, lter where hidden under leaves |
| | FLESH | | creamy, 1mm, soft, flexible but not breaking |
| | GILL | | notched, 3-4 per mm, straight, unbr, 2mm wide, creamy to tawny to almost orange as you approach edge |
| | SPORE | | print white, colorless, ellip, smooth, looks like a dimple on either side when dry, not sticky, 5x2.5um, 1 cell |
See also
20060614 and
20060705.
Pluteus admirabilis
On hardwood limb under conifers; over on ridge between two roads by Langdale's.
| | GEN | | medium mushroom, cluster of two, on dead hardwood? limb |
| | ST | | 50x4-5mm, wider bel, curved, shiny fibrous, tawny bel to white near top, kinda tough, fracturing and splitting but not breaking when bent, solid |
| | CAP | | 40mm wide, flat to convex, v sl umbo, golden yellow to brown umbo, fibrillose making it look streaked or striate, smooth, dry |
| | FLESH | | white, 3mm, somewhat tough skin that peels off with difficulty, brittle and soft |
| | GILL | | free, pinkish, 2 per mm, unbr, straight but with sinuous edge, 5mm wide |
| | SPORE | | lt pinkish brown, colorless, ellip, 1 cell, smooth, 5.5-6.2x5-5.3um, not sticking really at all |
Similar to the
P. I saw two days ago, but spores and gill color and stalk subtly different. Mom emphatically disagrees with
Lincoff calling the spore print salmon
pinkish-cinnamon maybe, but definitely not salmon. Seems to match the description in
Lincoff pretty well.
Xeromphalina campanella
Found some nice stands of bright orange ones over to left of Joan's dig ridge. Same ochre-fuzzy foot, decurrent branched gills, and habit.
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Citations: 1. ID from "magstauch" at flickr
